

Michael James Herrick
Updated:
29 MAR 2021
Airman: a019055.htm Surname: Herrick
Init: M J Rank: S/Ldr Service: RAF Sqdn: 305
P_link: p327.htm
Plane: MOS NS913 Operation: Day ranger Crash_site: Oue at
Hadsund
Crash_d: d160644 Buried_d: b060744
C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn,
gr. 67
Den korte version: Under en
dagpatruljeflyvning (Ranger) den 16. juni 1944 over Danmark blev
MOS NS913 se
fotos, skudt
ned af en tysk jager ved Mariager Fjord. De to ombordværende blev dræbt.
P/O Turski blev begravet i Frederikshavn den 20.juni 1944, S/Ldr Herrick den 6.
juli 1944. (Kilde: FAF) Nedstyrtningsstedet er
omkring her, ca. 2 km øst for Oue Kirke. (Kilde: Jørgen Toubro)
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Den lange version: Se ved flyet
MOS NS913.
Se
også
Mosquito fotos
og
Google Map 14 Mosquitoes DK.
Squadron Leader (Pilot) Michael James Herrick,
23 år, var søn af Edward Jasper Herrick og
Ethne Rose Herrick, Hastings,
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Hæderstegn: Distinguished Flying Cross
med bjælke fra UK
og Air Medal fra
USA. (Kilde: CWGC)
Fra New Zealand, britisk statsborger, gjorde
tjeneste i Royal Air Force i en polsk eskadrille, hæderstegn fra UK
og USA - og
kun 23 år gammel! 2 flyvere.
The short version: During a
Day ranger mission on 16 June, 1944 over Denmark
MOS NS913 see photos, was shot
down by a German fighter at Mariager
Fjord. The two aboard were killed. P/O Turski was buried in Frederikshavn on 20
June 1944, S/Ldr Herrick on 6 July 1944. (Source: FAF)
The crash site is
about here,
about 2 km east of Oue Church. (Source: Jørgen Toubro)
The long version: See it at the plane
MOS NS913.
See
Mosquito Photos and
Google Map 14 Mosquitoes DK.
Squadron Leader (Pilot) Michael James Herrick,
23, was the son of Edward Jasper Herrick and Ethne Rose Herrick, of Hastings,
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Awards: DFC and Bar, from UK and Air Medal, from
USA. (Source: CWGC)
From New Zealand, a citizen of the United Kingdom,
serving in the Royal Air Force in a Polish Squadron, awards from UK and USA - and
only 23 years old! Auckland
War Memorial Museum has
this
about Michael James Herrick.
See
No. 305 Polish Bomber Squadron - Wikipedia *
Mosquito *
Mosquito Photos *
Google Map 14 Mosquitoes DK *
Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain
305 SQUADRON (Polish Air Force in Exile
1940-45) WHY 305
SQUADRON? * 21 Polish airmen buried in Denmark out of
36 Polish airmen shot down over Denmark.
Mosquito FB.V1 SM-T
took off from RAF West
Raynham at 21.47 hrs on 20 APR 1943. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this with
Archive
Report.)
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